Even law firms get sued for discrimination once in a while, but you would expect lawyers to be smart enough not to serve Big Red and fried chicken to black employees in celebration of Juneteenth. Talk about stereotyping!!
Sadly that is just what has happened to Dallas law firm Eberstein & Witherite (Better known as
Fifty years ago yesterday John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Even with that much time to eradicate unfair pay between men and women, many still believe a gap exists. Stories from the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, and NPR, all cite a 2010 Census Bureau Report that women
On May 2, 2013, Governor Perry signed the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act into law. So, let’s cut right to it. What does it do different for employers? The most notable feature is that the law allows the “prevailing party” to recover fees in certain circumstances.
This is a nice feature. Trade secret litigation is
As Business Week reports this week, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down the poster requirement created by the National Labor Relations Board. For those who do not know or do not remember, in August 2011, the NLRB adopted a rule requiring private businesses to post a notice of the
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) have released a new form I-9. This is the first change in almost 25 years according to the Society for Human Resource Management. The new form incorporates new fields and has been reformatted. USCIS hopes this will reduce errors in completion.
Employers may begin using the new
On February 5, 2013, the Department of Labor announced the final rules for changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) permitted under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010. From the time the act was passed until now, there has not been any final guidance for employers on the DOL’s position with respect
Please enjoy this guest post from Travis Crabtree, my colleague in Houston whose practice focuses on internet law. Visit Travis’ blog at www.emedialaw.com
Democratic Texas State Representative Helen Giddings filed a bill prohibiting employers in Texas from asking for social media passwords from applicants and current employees. Texas joins a long list of states
Melissa Nelson is “devastated” according to ABC News. She was fired from her job as a dental assistant after 10 years of service because her male employer found her attractive and felt termination necessary to protect his marriage.
Nelson was hired in 1999 at the age of 21 to be a dental assistant in
Put this in the “boring, but important” category. Last month the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (or “SUB”) payments are not considered wages and thus not taxable to the employee or the employer for FICA.
First, a little education. What are SUB payments? When an employer makes a reduction in
Remember that cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy last year? Remember the bumbling captain that ran the ship aground, cost the lives of 32 people, and abandoned the ship before his passengers? His name is Francesco Schettino and the cruise line he worked for let him go immediately after the incident. He